Why are proprietary packages in main?

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Dienstag, den 28.07.2020, 17:36 +0530 schrieb Avinash Sonawane:
> Hello!
> 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu says "Main -
> Canonical-supported free and open-source software." but non-free
> packages like amd64-microcode and intel-microcode are in main.
> 
> Why is that? Has the meaning of "main" changed? (From that same
> ubuntu
> help page it seems that these blob packages should be in
> "restricted".)
> 

this is (theoretically) correct, you should file a bug [1] on launchpad
to get actual developer feedback ... 

ciao
	oli

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/intel-microcode
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